Ensenada's current (as of 2009[update]) municipal president (Spanish: presidente municipal) is Enrique Pelayo Torres. A major port is planned to be built in Punta Colonet, a largely uninhabited area 80 km (50 mi) south of the city of Ensenada. Located offshore, Guadalupe Island is part of the municipality, making Ensenada the westernmost municipality in Mexico.

In 2015 the municipality had a population of 486,639, up from 466,814 in 2010 and 413,481 in 2005.

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Administrative divisions of Ensenada Municipality, covering more territory than some Mexican states, with a section scheduled to be spun off in 2016 as San Quintín Municipality, nevertheless, entrenched poverty, insecurity and human rights violations have raised questions and may delay administrative change.

Territorially massive Ensenada municipality is administratively subdivided into 23 boroughs (Spanish: delegaciones), of which Ensenada form the city of Ensenada, the municipal seat:

As of 2010, the city of Ensenada had a population of 279,765.[2] Other than the city of Ensenada, the municipality had 3,245 localities, the largest of which (with 2010 populations in parentheses) were: